Word: pocketbook
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meanwhile, the earnest editorialists will discover occult influences at work. Diabolic, middlemen are wringing the shekels from the consumer's pocketbook. That demon, Inefficiency, hauntre of conscientious Americans, is implicated in the plot. The credit for the improvement of the market serves even to make a president, for, according to political medicine-men, it was the jargonish singsong of the last campaign which cast the devil of bankruptcy out of the farmer's "innards...
...industry. Sales of radio sets and parts have increased from $2,000,000 in 1920 to $400,000,000 in 1924, and the "saturation point" is still apparently far away. The radio industry appeals to the average American's imagination, and how far it will fatten his pocketbook remains to be seen...
...amuse; well-written verse and doggerel sometimes. We didn't see the story about the man who took his maiden to "What Price Glory" unsuspectingly, was correspondingly worried as to her reaction, but when she turned to him in the middle of the second act, and, pointing to her pocketbook on the floor, said "Pick up that g--d--n bag" he decided the show was tame for her; but, to complete this rather involved sentence, while we didn't see the story in Lampy, we know it is one of the newest and best, so we feel sure that...
Tariff. "The tariff afforded an opening to hosts of privilege for an assault less direct but far more devastating to the public pocketbook. We are told that America in 1921 was threatened from abroad by an 'impending avalanche of suddenly cheapened merchandise' from which it was narrowly saved by the beneficent action of the Fordney-McCumber tariff...
Shooting Shadows. A comely lady and her husband have designs upon the pocketbook of the inevitable handsome millionaire. She falls in love with him. Can she go through with the blackmail scheme? Oh, dear, no! Following a series of un-bewildering circumstances, the millionaire fires a shot. That starts things going. The "mellow" drama gets a bit overripe and oozes "gooily" about the stage. The audience becomes pained when it ought to laugh, laughs when it ought to quake with fear. Needless to say the lovers are eventually left free to thrill one another with unrestricted mush without further discomfiting...